53'4 ANNUAL R E G I ST E R, 1805. 



receive your letfer. My duty to 

 my king and country is so superior 

 to every otlier coasidtTation, that I 

 have only to thank you for the ob- 

 servations you have been pleased to 

 make on tiie often inevitable conse- 

 quences of war. Give me leave, 

 individually, to express the greatest 

 gratitude for your humanity and 

 Jcind treatment of my wife and 

 children ; at the same time to re- 

 quest a continuance thereof, not 

 only to her and them, but towards 

 every other object you may meet 

 with. 



I have the honour to be, Sec, 



(Signed) 



Geo. Prevo--t. 



K/'Hcd and IFouiukd in the yicliuns 

 of /lie ^'id of Fchruari/, 1S05, ai 

 Point Michael, Mornc Daniel, and 

 Roseau. 



Total.— ^1 Serjeant, 1 drummer, 

 and 11) rank and file, killed ; 1 fii-ld- 

 otTicor, 2 captitins, and 18 rank and 

 file, woundid ; 1 captain, 1 Ser- 

 jeant, and 6 rank and lile, taken by 

 the enemy. 



Names cf the Offircrs zzmaided, — 

 Capt. Colin Campbell, of the 46ih 

 recjimcnt ; major Nunn and cajitain 

 O'ConncIl, of the 1st Wcst-India 

 regiment. 



N. B. Three sailors woinirlcd, 

 exclusive of the militia, from which 

 no return has been received, but 

 whose loss is considerable. 



James Prevost, maj. of brig. 



Bnmstone.hiU, St. Kill'.t, March S. 

 Sir, — I did myself the honour of 

 writing to yon on the 27th inst. 

 by the mail-boat, to suy that intelli- 

 gence had been received here, on 

 that morning, of the arrival of a 

 French force at Dominica, and the 

 f^tcps I had taken to make such 

 circumstances known to govern- 

 mpnt, I lost no time in placing this 



garrison in, the best state to repel 

 any attack that might be made by 

 the enemy, and increasiuu the pro- 

 visions to a quantity suflicient to 

 maintain a garrison of .500 men for 

 three months, which was, by the 

 exertions et the resident commis- 

 sary, cllcrtcd on the 1st instant. I 

 have now to inform you, that on the 

 morning of the Fjth inst a French 

 Sfjuadron, consisting f)f five line of 

 battle ships, (one a three decker), 

 three frigates, two brigs of war, and 

 a schooner, with, according to ac- 

 counts since received, 3, .500 men on 

 board, appeared off Nevis-point, 

 and stood in lor Basseterre, where 

 the frigates only anchored. I did 

 not think it consistent with the 

 safety of this garrison to divide 

 the small force of regular troops 

 under my command ; and the militia 

 being found inadequate to give cf- 

 fectu;il opposititm, it was j)ri'vi«usly 

 agreed witli president VVoodley, 

 that 300 of them should be thrown 

 into this garrison in the event of the 

 enemy's clfecling a landing; in con- 

 sequence of which, and the enemy 

 having landed about 500 men at 

 Basseterre, he marched in here with 

 great jjiomptncss on the same day, 

 with the above 300 men, including 

 seamen and militia. The enemy 

 took possession of the town, de- 

 manding the immediate payment of 

 40,0001. sterling, in failure of which 

 it should be burned. The inliabi- 

 tants with difficulty raised IS, with 

 which sum they embarked, intimat- 

 in:j an intention of attacking this 

 hill, and, Ironi the state of prepara- 

 tion we were in, as well as the zeal 

 shewn by the troops in this garrison, 

 I have every reason to believe that 

 the result would have been such as 

 you Avould wish. It does not ap- 

 pear, however, that this squadron 



wish 



